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Your idea is not a product yet: turning a concept into a buildable plan
You turn an idea into a buildable plan by naming one user, walking their journey in plain sentences, and cutting everything not required for someone to get value once.
Plutonapps Engineering1 min read
This is a sample entry. The structure is final; the full write-up is on its way.
An idea is a feeling about a problem. A plan is a set of decisions someone else can act on without asking you what you meant. The work of planning is converting the first into the second.
What are the seven steps?
- Write the idea in one sentence, without adjectives.
- Name the single user who feels the problem most.
- Describe the problem as it happens today, including the workaround they already use.
- Walk the journey end to end, in their words.
- List only the functionality that journey requires.
- Write down what data has to exist for that to work.
- Cut everything that is not needed for someone to get value once.
If you cannot describe the user's journey in plain sentences, no tool will build it for you — it will just build something.
The output of this exercise is not a document for its own sake. It is the context that makes every later decision faster, including the prompts you write in Lovable.
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